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This Halloween, lock the doors, turn down the lights and enter a dark and demented realm in which anything can happen — and almost certainly will — as Storm King Comics presents the 11th annual volume of JOHN CARPENTER’S TALES FOR A HALLOWEENIGHT.

Debuting October 13 in comic shops, bookstores and from the Storm King Comics website, JOHN CARPENTER’S TALES FOR A HALLOWEENIGHT offers an incredible collection of short tales of terror, the unexpected and the macabre from some of the best writers and animators working in comics and graphic novels today. 

Featuring a haunting cover by Tim Bradstreet opens with “Cathedral,” a grisly tale of a violent, never-before-encountered entity written by John Carpenter. The volume also features a nostalgic nightmare set in 1987, a dread-laden return to the turn of the 20th century, a darkly disturbing tale of current events, plus stories of monsters, werewolves and cursed creatures. As a bonus, JOHN CARPENTER’S TALES FOR A HALLOWEENIGHT VOL. 11 also features a section of full-page, standalone “pinups” filled with wild and weird imaginings.

Dedicated to actor Peter Jason, who appeared in multiple movies directed by John Carpenter and was a close friend of both Carpenter and King, JOHN CARPENTER’S TALES FOR A HALLOWEENIGHT VOL. 11 will make its retail debut during New York Comic-Con, where a variant cover by illustrator Cat Staggs will be available for purchase.

“The terrors we can imagine are nothing compared to the dreadful realities we’ve actually lived through since last Halloween, but there’s one thing I’ve always known is true: horror heals,” said Sandy King, founder and editor of Storm King Comics. “These stories let our minds wander into a land where anything is possible, almost everything is frightful, and in which our worst fears can be realized — safely, with a healthy dose of humor. This year’s lineup is so strong, and we’re sure fans of horror will love what they find in the pages of this graphic novel.”

JOHN CARPENTER’S TALES FOR A HALLOWEENIGHT VOL. 11 joins the all-new, visually arresting BLOOD OF THE TAKEN Book 2: NEXT OF KIN on the Storm King Comics fall lineup. That graphic novel by writer and illustrator Sian Mandrake is available for purchase now.

“This has been an incredible year for Storm King Comics,” King said. “We’ve premiered the first-ever project to bring together John Carpenter and George A. Romero’s names, the beautiful adaptation of The Amusement Park. We’ve seen the release of Death Mask Vol. 2: Ichor Azure, a hard-edged crime thriller. And we greeted thousands of new fans by making our appearance at Midsummer Scream. It will be hard to top this — but that’s what we’re hoping to do in 2026, and it all begins with our annual celebration of the Halloween season.”

JOHN CARPENTER’S TALES FOR A HALLOWEENIGHT VOL. 11 wil be available in comics shops (findyourcomicstore.com) and from Storm King Comics (www.StormKingComics.com) on October 13th 2025. The newest horror anthology will also be available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and local bookstores (bookshop.org). Digital copies can be purchased from Global Comix. 

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Back in February 2024 during Dreamland Maid Cafe’s stand alone pop up for Valentine’s Day, out at the Ramda Hotel beach house spot, in El Monte, California; I had attended my very first maid cafe experience. Having heard about them via conventions and them being popularized in Japan, this idea was brought to the U.S. and made available for Californians. Upon attending this event, I had made the suggestion for have another maid cafe experience in celebration of the holiday Halloween! Eight months later this would come alive in Downtown Los Angeles, California’s own Little Tokyo! Happening for only one weekend October 19th and 20th 2024, my reservation was the first day Saturday October 19th, for 1:30PM, where you were seated for 1 hour, served food, interactions with the maids and experienced a mini concert!

After being checked in, the maids greeted at the door, then my partner and I were seated at our table. The atmosphere was semi-Halloween with some simple streamers laid upon the walls and balloons, but that was it. Not much spooky-ness going on with the décor really which was a slight disappointment. The maid’s attire was the usual pink uniforms with minor Halloween dress up thrown in for good measure, each maid featuring either ears, tails or both! But I think it would have been more “fun” if they sported black maid outfits with spooky flare embedded in. Otherwise the menu option’s featured curry rice, karaage chicken, taiyaki, and an ice cream parfait. Drink wise would be lemonade, tropical punk, and iced coffee. 

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Picking the tropical punk and curry rice, my partner choose the lemonade, karaage chicken, and we shared an ice cream parfait. They did have add-on options with souvenirs nothing “Halloween” based really, minus the polarid photo, which they did deck out in spooky stickers and text! Other merchandise included magnets, light up sticks, keychains, luggage tag keychains, stickers, pins, cup, and the photo poloraid as mentioned previously. But that is not all, they was also an option for a fee to have a maid perform live on stage, during the concert portion of the event, Picked out our maid and she performed live with microphone, a lot of the other maids just danced to the songs played but all of the performances kept the crowd’s attention and made the experience more fun!

All in all this “Halloween” pop up event was a fun one, and to have them run with my idea suggestion was so much fun to take part in, hence why I am here providing this piece about how it all happened! The location was a nice option but the alternative would be the original location for future perhaps other pop up maid cafe experiences, that spot just felt more personal. But in short, check out a maid cafe if you get the chance to do so!

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For all things spooky, is when fall is upon us, or in some instances all things revolving around Halloween may be all year round! This is a thing for some of us, and Los Angeles County celebrated it this past spring with their “Spooky Swap Meet”, and this year’s 2024 edition being year four. Later on in the year come the fall time, would be Orange County’s turn with their own take of a similar spooky event called the “Creep It Real OC”, both events happening at the Heritage Museums of each owns country. Los Angeles’ had more vintage Victorian houses as opposed to Orange County’s, having some scattered here and there. Both events dwell on the same thing, all spooky and Halloween through and through!

Having attended both takes on this spooktacular way of life, OC was the fun this time, experiencing their own ways with this event, having a magic show, band play, and vendors of appeal, stickers, bags, posters, flags, toys, keychains, a wide range of items. Including snacks, food items, and beverages, one of which came in an actual Jack O Lantern keepsake! This was a very popular item, a lot of the people in attendance carrying pumpkins around drinking from them! The band in question playing on the Sunday and last day of the 2 day event was one called the Radioactive Chicken Heads, a punk rock band, whose act is a bunch of chicken’s fronted by a giant mutated vegetable. The ban being active for quite sometime, doing shows and touring every so often, that this weekend’s festivities brought the band back out, and got their rock on, with three different sets, each getting the crowd’s approval.

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Their performance was funny, upbeat, and entertaining, the kids and adults alike, cheering to their antics, with the members having numerous characters come out and interact amongst the crowd of on lookers, getting a reaction of joy and fun. The music being punk rock, that’s catchy, mellow, yet fast at times, that kept the energy within the band active yet fun. They are a band that you would have to pretty much see them to believe them and the whole ordeal revolving around this radioactive mutation of creation.

All in all, Orange County’s Halloween take on a spooky fun event is worth the admission, because this weekend was completely sold out! Lots of people showing up, buying stuff, and adoring themselves with scary goods, to creep it real as the event is named after.

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